Former Labour MP Simon Danczuk is in the midst of honeymoon bliss with his new Rwandan wife, with the happy couple seen frolicking in a pool and walking hand in hand together. Danczuk, 56, married beauty therapist Claudine Uwamahoro, who is 28 years his junior, in a traditional Rwandan ceremony […]
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By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Updated: 21:51 GMT, 12 January 2024 There was some speedy rewriting of scripts after data showed that Britain’s economy, buoyed by a lively services sector, unexpectedly expanded by 0.3 per cent in November. All the excited chatter ahead of the data, about a […]
Labour is to kick off campaigning in a string of upcoming byelections by highlighting increased mortgage costs in so-called blue wall constituencies, in a tactical shift in which the party will openly target Conservative-held seats coveted by the Liberal Democrats. Rachel Reeves, the shadow chancellor, is to visit Kingswood, the […]
‘Stick with the plan delivering long-term change’, Rishi Sunak to say to voters Good morning. There are three types of campaign you can run during an election: ‘it’s time for a change’ (normally an opposition message, but a governing party can also campaign like this, as Boris Johnson did in […]
Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus has been convicted of violating Bangladesh’s labour laws in a case decried by his supporters as politically motivated. The 83-year-old is credited with lifting millions out of poverty with his pioneering microfinance bank, but has earned the enmity of Sheikh Hasina, the longtime prime minister […]
By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Updated: 11:12 GMT, 27 December 2023 How kind of Ed Balls to take time out from breakfast TV and being a celebrity to tell David Schwimmer and the London Stock Exchange Group how to run their enterprise. Balls’s suggestion that somehow the London […]
The Labour party is considering processing some asylum claims overseas if it forms the next government. Sir Keir Starmer has been looking over new plans for Labour’s asylum policy, a spokesman told the BBC. Asked last week if his party would consider processing asylum claims outside of the UK, Sir […]
This week we are re-running some of our favourite episodes. Today in Focus will return with new episodes on Tuesday 2 January 2024. Labour went into the 1997 general election having been in opposition for 18 years. None of the shadow cabinet had any government experience. And yet the party […]